The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1943, Page 2

PAGE TWO RUSSIANS SENATORS PRESSING LOOK INTO 4 Hero (ommg THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE—JUNEAU ALASKA NO COFFEEHIT AHEADNOW OIL, MUSIC To Northland IS TOUGH, UGH ; Germans Throwmg Tanks, Speclal Committee Hears Waxplanes Info Stiffen- | Mayor LaGuardia, ' ing Sland in | Caucasus | Petrillo } | | Contitniel from Page One) {(WASHINGTON, Jan, 13—Mayor| Fiorello LaGuardia of oil-thrifty New York urged today that more J !tank cars be routed east from the Progress here s slower than I niqwest, fetting the ‘midwest, it-| other parts of the Oalicasts bubl,)r qepend rore on hauls from the Russians are repoftéd pressing| .rie1d4s in the southwest. ahead at a steady ‘enoush pace tol yociordia’ was a Witness' before prevent enemy m%mupm«' of the| a dpecial Sendte commiittee inves- suateed O = | tigating the ol and gasoline shott- In close quarter fighting at Sta-| oo 5 “the Hast linorad, the Red Army made an ‘gegore the same committee, Rep. important gain' by thrusting for-ye protested “Gestapo ‘methods| ward m the northern factory .. snooping on people” which he district to the westérn outskirts of !said 'had developed out of the ban ., Loy {on ‘pleastire driving in the East. | The Senate committee's investi-{ | wind that huwll‘d across the snow- covered steppes - eee — HOSPITAL NOTES lgauon of ‘the ban by the American Federation of Musici on re- ’ corded music brought the union’s Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Ostello “re.presidem, Petrillo, to ‘the stand. he parents ‘of a baby hoy,vbomlHl_ countered with a demand for “Ohwmasj AL R S Hoepita, investigatioh of a “few giant ‘cor- and weighing 7 pounds and porations” which he said fatténed ounces. Mr. Ostello is in the U. 8./, ne expense of and “lived off Goast, ‘Guard. musicians” He asked especially’ hat the 'committee inguire into| the ‘methods of the National ‘As-| scelated Brondcastexs &gtaplm S. Mrs. Pat Read entered St. Ann's Hospital for 'surgery January 11. Dermott O'Toole froin Ten- s an incoming surgiedl pa- St. Ann's Hospital Mon- Mrs akee w tient day at Eddie Philiminof was discharged | m the Government Hospital tmsl Laorning. | C. K. Robinson and Harry Brack- | OHUNGKING, en, medical patients, have beén dis- | ! the charzed from St. Ann’s Hospital. Jan. 13—Sinyang, i important Japanese base in | southern Hoonan Province on the| | Peiping-Hankow railway, has been Master Teddy Kealeri was an. yecaptured, the Chinese High Com- outgoing patient at St. Ann’s HOs- | mand announces this afternoon. ital yesterday. This is considered the mest sig- | nificant victory for the Chinese in Mrs. Fred Apsch, at St. Ann's months in the Central China war Hospital for surgery, has been dis- theatre. charged. Theé official communique also re- ports ‘the recapture of Hwang- chwan, east of Snyang. Six hundred -Japs have killed. Sinyang is the key point of the Jap defense in Southern ‘and has been Lt. J. L. Granger, at St. Ann’s Hospital for medical attention, has been discharged. B been Empire Classifieds Pay! starting ‘point for numerous “mop- ping up” expeditions. D FHynn Is On Trial, Rape ::?'M%C"HS Butler-Mauro Drug Co. i ———— — —— ——— — i | LOS ANGELES, Jan. 13.—A jury | of nine women and three men, two | :Jof them grandparents and all but {two parents, has been selected to :iry Errol Flynn on three counts of | statutory rape. The same crowd of | cager feminine observers was on ;hand for the third day of the trial | but only the earliest arrivals found e ‘(ONDITION OF RADIO SINGER KATE SMITH BAD NEW YORK, Jan. 13—The con-| dition of Kate Smith, radio singer, ill with a stomach ailment, is des- cribéd. as critical. She became ill last Friday from a gall bladder attack. Nine doctors are in con- sultation this afternoon regarding the advisibility of an operation. D MRS. CHARLES DEVL LEAVES HOSPITAL; GOES TO BISHOP APARTMENTS Mrs. Charles Devlin left St. Ann’s Hospital last evening where ' she has been receiving medical care | for the past ten days, and wenfl to' an apartment at the Bishop Apartments for furthér rest and quiet. Her daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Statles, came from Anchorage about January 2 to be with her, and may make their home in Juheau. ——ee— BUY DEFENSE STAMPS AFTER a fire, you may be amazed to find your household goods are un- der -insured. You are aware of today’s higher prices, but have you neg- lected to increase your insurance accordingly? Ask this Hartford agency —_ to check up your insur- ance NGV — before it is too lute. Shattuek Agency INSURANCE—BONDS JUNEAU ‘| radio broadeast picked up ‘here By Chinese Honan | the base of *their| opérations since 1939 and a favorite | | held at the Juneau Health Center| Lieut. Joseph L. Lockheart, the‘ | Pear] Harbor hero "who first heard | Japanese planes approaching Hon-| olulu again, Intelligencer of January 7 Only—this Honolulu is south of| Colorado and north of Montana,| and the natives in this Honolulu favor mukluks 4nd parkas over| grass skirts, This Honolulu is a stop on the| Alaska Railroad line = about 150| miles north of Anchorage, Alaska, on the way to Fairbanks, Colorado| and Mortana ‘are ‘a couple of other points on the Alaska Railroad line. Lockard is a Signal Corps en- dineering officer with the far-flung Alaske Communicdtions -System, His report of .approaching Japanese planes at Pearl Harbor wentun- heeded by superior officers, but lat- er he was awarded the Distin- guished Service Medal ‘for his alert- riess that fateful mornihg. He was commissioned a second lieutenant] late last summer. OFFENSIVE BY SOVIETS LONDON, ,Jan, 13—The German Gommand ‘announced tonight If a that the Russians have launched a, new offensive in ‘the 'Voronezh area. This area is the anchor line run- ning southward from Stalingrad fo ‘the Caucasus which the ‘Ger- mans repeatedly attempted to take f1edt summer bul never pene!mted PARCEL DELIVERY SERVICE_STARTED BY DUANE MARTIN Establishment of the Parcel De- livery Service was announced today {by Duane Martin, former Royal; Blue cab driver who is now in business for himself. regulations forbid delivery | lof parcels by taxi cab, the Parcel Delivery Service, Martin said, is heing started to fill a need in Juneau. will carry trunks, baggage, urcels and make deliveries at any (ime of the day or night. In addition, Martin will run a scheduled delivery service at 10:30} am. and 2:30 pm,, with city pick- ups at a special 25-cent rate. Martin, who will -handle his business through phone 492, has his own truck, knows the city well and hopes his delivery business will | provide Juneau merchants and resi- |dents a worthwhile service and save res and wear and tear on per- sonal car equipment. - ——— WELL BABY CONFERENIE A Well Baby Conférence will be Since Thursday afternoon from 1 to 4, the public health nurse announces. e e———— KILLED AT SKAGWAY Jim Bean, former owner ‘of the Wrangell Machine Works, was re- Iy killed 4t Skagwdy when a :tor he was driving plunged into ine. M FLIGHT TO SITKA A flight to Sitka was made this morning by Shell Simmons of the Alaska Coastal Airlines, with the following passengers: Mr. and Mrs. | A. J. Baker, and Harry Poloff. e, MISSIONARY SOCIETY MEETING ‘THURSDAY; SOCIAL IS ARRANGED The Missionary Sotiety of the Memorial Presbyterian Church is sponsoring a social in the church recreation -room Thursday night, starting at 7:80 o'clock. Friends are welcome to attend with the mem- bers. R ® 908 00 00 v 0 00 9 WEATHER REPORT . (U..8. Bureau) Temp. TFuesday, Jan. 12 Maximum 45, minimum 35 Rain—140 'inch ters stocked their |old Arbuckle brand—; l“ldopt” boys in the armed forces A V. Gl LLETTE AP Features GALLUP, N. M. —The Big Chief By To the Navajo, coffee ranks in importance right behind his horses ind his' flocks. Without his coffee— kofay,” ‘one of the few words for whch the Indians 'have found no tribal language substitute—a Nav- |ajo can hardly work up a good mer- hcme dance. | Why, there have been times when meat 'and ‘such ‘was scarce amd ‘the ‘Navajo ‘had to pull through on bread and coffee alone. But the literal Navajo is taking his coffee rationing like everything relse, strictly at face value. And while Big ‘Chief OPA may not be the '‘most popular fellow among the 50,000 Navajos, traders say the In- fians ‘have not hoarded coffee. ‘ 'Phe Navajo camp and coffee just g0 together—lke hotdogs and buns, or hamburgers and onion. In ‘the chill on the high plateau reservation in New Mexico and Afizona, ‘the coffee pot simmers steadily on the campfires surround- ing ‘the medicine dances. Tt looks now as if the pot will holl wedaKly, if at all. A Potent Brew Navajo coffee, however, is only 4 ‘distant cousin to ‘the gently “teeped pale-face beverage. The Navajo ‘recipe is to dump coffee, 4rdr dand water together intop the 1)0' ‘and boil. The principal detail 41 Navijo ‘coffee miking is boil- Ing. If ‘anyone needs more coffee, additional sugar, water and coffee are tossed into the 'pot. At the diseréflon of the cook, the old irounds are tossed out—usually at eamp moving time. The position of coffee in the Navajo diet was given official re- cognition by the Indian Bureau ubout 10 years ago when the N: i0s were snowbound on the re: tion, and many faced :t:u'\.n(mn Army bombers dropped food, and in cach package of provisions was al- ways a box of coffee Coffee Strike The Navajos once staged won a sit~down strike for fayorite brand. Early shel and [)!HI ves with the by-word on the southwest plains—and packaged In bright yellow sacks trimmed in red and blue and garnished with the pigture of “the lady with wings. 8quavs furnished their mud and log' hogans with coffee premiums. Papooses grew up on cut-outs of brightly dressed ladies of the per- tod. Then, Arbuckles without warning changed the brand and modern- ized the .package. The Navajos would have none of it. Package Returns The old package was finally re- instated, and remained in high fa- brand was discontinued. Even the sturdy pine boxes in which coffee was shipped by the carload played an important part in made. into tables and chairs. They were ‘used for partitions, outbuild- ings and fences. Coffee rationing may change a lot of things. One -thing, however, | probably won't change. That's boil- ing. Coffee grounds now probably will be boiled as long as necessary nti a fresh batch is rationed out. | "SWEETHEARTS" NOW T0 ADOPT MEN IN SERVICE NEW YORK—Ann Corio, one| of ‘the leading exponents of the strip-tease art, is organizing a group which she calls “Sweethearts of the AEF.” She is rounding up a group of . Broadway and Hollywood act- resses as charter members of the or- ganization, purpose of which is to overseas, write letters to them and Send at least once-a month a pack- age ‘of candy, -cookies, cigarets and other - gifts. Each member, says Ann, will be assigned a boy by draw- ing -a ‘'name from a hat. | e | Soviet_ wartime- vocational scheold . - . . * ee0 e oo 00 e e, Empire Classifieds. Pay! are designed to bring 900,000 new trained workers into industry ev year. Pearl Harbor yWHATS THIS? FIVE INDICTED, NEGRO LYNCHING JACKSON, MI&S J.ln 13.—A Fed- eral Grand Jury has indicted four private citizens and one deputy sheriff for violation of the Federal Rights Statute in connection with the lynching of Howard Wash, negro, at Laurel, Miss,, last October. Wash had been convicted of the killing of Clint Welborn, white man, and was in jail under life sentence. olulu, December 7, is going to Hon-|of the OPA tribe may have to He was taken from the jail by a says the Seattle Post-|answer to the Navajo about this ymoph and hanged to a bridge near | coffee - business the scene of the killing. FDR ASKS MONEY 10 BUD SHIPS WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress to provide a supplemental appro- priation of four billion dollars for the Maritime Commission’s expand- ed merchant shipbuilding program. | MRS. DRAKE LEAVES HOSPITAL FOR HOME After many vwoks in St. Ann’s Hospital recovering from a severe case of flu and the enervating after-effects, Mrs. James Drake was able to return home yesterday, where | her convalescence will continue for some time She plans to keep in touch with work in the Department of Educa- tion office by weekly visits, until her physician permits her to return | to full time attendance. R e DMMA HANSEN IS BACK, GRADE SCHOOL| - After a sudden trip south, caused ( by the death of her brother at lhl' family home in North Dakota, Miss Delma Hansen has returned to Ju- neau and is back in her classromn t the Junau Grade School where | she teaches the third and fourth| grades. DA £ BUY DEFENSE BONDS Ch||ds Colds Relieve Misery ~Rub on Time-Tested viexs VAPORUB | s vor until last August when the the Navajo country. The boxes were ALL YOU NEED IS A DAILY SPOTOF SUN It’s ultra-violet in Summer sunshine, that helps your body store up resistance and build sound tissues. You can get the same beneficial ef- fectsfromaG-E Sun- lamp. Just as rich in ultra-violet and always handy. Use it a few minutes every day, from now through Spring. See how much better you feel. Let the whole family use it, especially the youngsters. Ask to see the G-E Sun- lamps. The new popular LM-4 lams illustrated is only $37.50. Alaska Eleciric Light and Power Co. CHAMBER WILL NAME COMMITTEE CHAIRMEN Committee chairmen for be announced at the Chamber Commerce meeting tomorrow President C. W. Carter, and interesting program has been ar- ranged, including explanation of | the coming dimout regulations for‘ Alaskan coastal towns | Business men interested in pre- paring to fulfill dimout regulations | which will go into effect February | 1 are especially urged to attend AR 1943 will | of by an | Australia is spending half national income for war THE ATCO LINE Alaska, Transportation Company L] SAILINGS FROM PIER 1 SEATTLE PASSENGERS PFREIGHT REFRIGERATION Ld | |{D- B. FEMMER—AGENT | b PHONE 114 NIGHT 312 I | We Make a Specxalty CI'IGP SUEY ALSO THE BEST IN AMERICAN DISHES The Royal Cafe THE M. V. BEILBY | will leave Juneau for Petersburg, | Port Alexander and Way Ports EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 6 A. M Please have all freight on Citr Dock ‘ruesdny. before 4 P. M. J. H. SAWYER GEQ. 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Juneau 10.00 Petersburg 30.00 ‘Wrangell 20.00 Express Rate: 25¢ per pound—Minimum of $1.00 to hetwchikan Express Rate: 10c per pound—Mlnllnnn of 60c to Petersburg and Wrangell FOR, )RMATION ON TRIPS TO HAINES, mm HASSELBORG SKAGWAY, TAKU LODGE: slz Above rates applicable when passenger traffic warrants Schedules and Rates Subject to Change Without Notice. JUNEAU — ANCHORAGE YAKUTAT — CORDOVA With Connecting Service to KODIAK — KENAI PENINSULA and BRISTOL BAY Woodley Airways (ALASKA AIR LINES) ALASKA COASTAL AIRLINES AGENTS PHONE 612